Oops. ABC screens last week’s Mad as Hell episode.
Updated: Micallef fans in meltdown over an ABC stuff-up. You had one job....
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ABC has mistakenly put to air last week’s Mad as Hell episode to air.
They're playing the wrong one. #idiots #madashelltv
— Shaun Micallef (@shaunmicallef) July 17, 2019
My wife is ringing the ABC switchboard. I rang ITV. Hopefully we'll at least get the right one up on iView. It's a good episode too. Nice and topical. Maybe they'll play it next week. #madashelltv #idiots https://t.co/FzYRHuuISv
— Shaun Micallef (@shaunmicallef) July 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/ToshGreenslade/status/1151441002986557441
TV Tonight can confirm a fresh episode was recorded last night.
ITV Studios Australia CEO David Mott also told TV Tonight he had spoken with ABC Managing Director David Anderson who was looking into the stuff-up.
“Meanwhile we’re enjoying a lovely encore of last week’s episode,” he joked. “I look forward to seeing the new one soon.”
On social media viewers are in meltdown over the mess.
Wait, is this last week's #MadAsHell?
— Shaun Micallef News (@SMicallefOnline) July 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/borednicholas/status/1151440077739790336
Repeat of Mad as Hell – why ? #madashell
— A Book of Dust (@ERN_Malleyscrub) July 17, 2019
The budget cuts are really hitting @ABCTV, just repeating topical news #MadAsHell #S10E3
Hopefully we get to see the gold Shaun and the team put together on iView later. You're looking for Episode 4— Shaun Micallef News (@SMicallefOnline) July 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/BagPhilo/status/1151440774254346240
On screen ABC ran a crawl “Apologies due to technical error, last week’s episode was played.”
ABC has now uploaded the new episode to iview. It will screen at 9pm Thursday on ABC.
An ABC spokesperson said, “The ABC apologises for broadcasting the incorrect episode of Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell. This fault was due to a technical error. This week’s episode has been put up on ABC iview for fans to watch as soon as they like. The episode will also be shown on the ABC’s main channel at 9pm Thursday night as well as at its regular repeat timeslot on Friday night.”
TV Tonight understands the correct episode was not supplied by ABC Melbourne to Media Hub playout.
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Missed last week’s episode and came in half way through this repeat. Not realising it was a repeat, I thought the banner along the bottom was a clever joke – a tongue-in-cheek parody of useless ribbons used on other shows.
Speaking of playing the wrong thing? Did anyone else notice Sunrise this morning at 6.00am played the wrong “coming up” . It was actually from last Thursday’s show, about NSW winning State Of Origin. Obviously someone realised, and it was quickly changed to today’s news. I just checked on 7 Plus and it’s still there. Just before the 6.00 am time stamp.
More importantly, were the closed captions that aired last night from last week, or what would have been for the fresh episode this week? If they were this week’s, that may prove there was a ‘live roll’ error from ABC Southbank as the closed captions are inserted live being the program is produced on a very tight production turn around.
After the initial confusion, checking twitter etc, I did actually notice it had the slightly out-of-sync captions from last week as well! Repeats tend to have resynced captions. iview also gets updated, usually…
Sounds like the Caption Centre might have expected the fresh episode and caption in block mode using a prepped caption file. But they themselves must have realised the wrong episode was going out and would have had to go into live caption steno mode resulting in jarred and delayed captions. What a mess!
In the recording I have of it, it looks like last week’s captions were being played, but not just that, it looks like it was being captioned live! The captions were appearing word-by-word instead of multiple lines at a time as they usually do.
I had captions on and it was matching the episode broadcast, however, they were intermittent and useless because of the fragmentation.
Looks like it was being live-captioned for some reason rather than re-using the previous week’s captions.
Everyone makes mistakes, and I really feel for the poor person who played the wrong episode, they’ll never live this down. The main issue is that Mad as Hell is very current, so when the correct ep goes to air it will be somewhat irrelevant.
Just read on the ABC app that the correct ep will air tonight, so that’s good.
It was about 5 minutes in last night when I realised. I must say there were a few jokes I missed the first time. After Squinters, I went on to iView and watched the right one. Last week’s ep was better I think
They were probably too busy banging on about how evil Trump is to notice what they put to air. Typical public servants, close enough is good enough.
TV guide still lists No Offence as 9 to 9.55pm tomorrow. Wonder how soon ABC will update that.
Tomorrow, it will have to go via Pagemasters I believe, usually updated in morning and again late arvo.
Perhaps at ABC Open House visitors can check if the right tape is in the VCR before leaving.
Comment of the week!
… except that the ABC outsourced it’s on-air presentation to Bruce Gordon’s WIN years ago. There’s almost nothing left at the ABC itself other than the news department …
Not WIN. MediaHub is a joint operation between the ABC and WIN to operate a custom design play-out facility for television presentation. Both the ABC and WIN own an equal number of ordinary shares in MediaHub. The ABC also owns Class B shares in MediaHub.
Partly true. The company is 50/50 owned by WIN and ABC, but it is not a “joint operation”, hence my point that ABC on-air presentation is, in fact, “outsourced”.
Mad as and No Offence (presumably). Might be enough to cancel my plans.
Missed last weeks episode and I wouldn’t have noticed if they didn’t have the text crawl.
And yet they didn’t think to interrupt the broadcast and air the new episode as soon as the mistake had been spotted?
Sure, they’d have to urgently shift a few things in the schedule (maybe remove a few promos to ensure that everything else would still air as scheduled) and perhaps even cut some late-night filler, but to continue airing the repeat?
As the old adage goes, what a waste of our tax dollars.
I think they noticed it too late. Looks like the banner first appeared around 20-25 minutes in, and it’s a 30 minute program.
In terms of stuff ups this is on par with a page of the Sydney Morning Herald being printed in the Daily Telegraph by accident!
That happened last year by the way
Available on iView now
I really liked the Wild Geese sketch so it was nice to see it again!
Does that mean in WA 2 hrs behind we’ll get the correct one though?
Not sure yet.
I am in WA and its a repeat.
WA still wrong episode, I’d guess all states will get the wrong episode so as to have all states back in sync next week.
A twitter user in Adelaide said they received the wrong episode too. That is unexplainable as they would have known about the issue in East Coast states before the episode played.
I may be mistaken, but I’m sure I can hear lots of windows being opened along the street and people yelling out, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to watch it anymore!”
It’ll be interesting to see what the rating are like tomorrow.
And also to see what the ratings will be for the Thursday proper showing – with a slightly later timeslot, and it being rescheduled so soon, some people might not receive the news in time.
It does get repeated several times during the week, so plenty of chances to catch it later…
I am watching it thinking “What’s going on. I watched this last week”. And glad it wasn’t just me.
Thank you so much to David for posting this very quick article 🙂
I thought I had seen this before, and a twitter search confirmed it. Hopefully they put the correct episode on iview asap.